Don Norman, publisher of the Starkville Daily News and West Point Daily Times Leader, wrote a recent column explaining the papers’ decision to reject a political ad against a judicial candidate during the heat of the campaign.
Family Publishing Group has named Scott Wright chairman and CEO of the 12-publication Suburban Community Newspapers Group.
Suburban Community Newspapers includes 11 weekly newspapers in the Memphis metro and north Mississippi areas, including Southaven, Ripley and Ashland. The company was formed in July as an affiliate of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Family Publishing Group.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and the Delta Democrat Times were recently cited by Editor and Publisher as two of 36 papers nationally to gain circulation in the six-month period ending Sept. 30.
The list of 36 papers with circulation gains included publications in 23 states, ranging from 6,000 to 104,000 circulation.
George E. Curry will be the featured speaker at the 2006 Aaron Henry Scholards Lecture Series on Race, Politics, Gender and Culture, sponsored by Mississippi Valley State University Thursday. Curry is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
Panelists will include Ross Reily, executive editor of the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville.
Ouch. Wasn’t last week supposed to be all about expanding the Democratic Party’s base, demonstrating a sense of political inclusiveness and pragmatism that broadens the reaches of an outfit that in defeat would have been heading in the direction of utter irrelevance?
So what was U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of Manhattan thinking when he took a gratuitous dig at Mississippi?
Mississippi paces New York on a variety of measures, from the top personal income tax rate (5% in Mississippi versus 6.85% there).
“The other question Rangel might have asked is why people from Mississippi aren’t flooding into his politically corrupt, crime-ridden city,” James W. Bailey wrote in The Clarion-Ledger (though Bailey himself apparently lives in Reston, Virginia).
But it may be WDAM in Hattiesburg that has the best retort, albeit a tad uncouth.
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